Clinical Trial of a Rehabilitation Game - SuperBetter (SuperBetter)

This study has been completed.

Sponsor:

Ohio State University

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01398566

First Posted: July 20, 2011

Last Update Posted: April 10, 2015

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Today's hospitals need innovative solutions to help patients transition from our care to self-management at home. The vast majority of the patients seen in Dodd Rehabilitation Hospital and associated clinics leave our care with persistent and life-altering challenges - behavioral, cognitive, emotional and/or physical. The period of time immediately following discharge is an under-addressed stage within the continuum of care. The investigators are researching solutions to help patients in this transition to self-care and believe that multiplayer gaming paradigms may be a promising innovation to facilitate this transition.

The investigators believe that Dr. Jane McGonigal's SuperBetter, and positive play games like it, are promising novel interventions that could make a positive difference in the ability of our patients to successfully transition to self care after discharge from therapeutic care.

Specifically, the investigators will evaluate feasibility of use of such a game by mild to moderate brain injured individuals and to record pilot data to help us plan a clinical effectiveness follow up study. Our goal is to finish this study with an intervention tailored for use within the clinical continuum of care and sufficient pilot data to prepare for a randomized clinical control trial of this intervention.

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Ages Eligible for Study:

15 Years to 25 Years (Child, Adult)

Sexes Eligible for Study:

All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers:

No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Patients: between 15 and 25 years old

diagnosed within the last year with at least one traumatic brain injury (mild or moderate)

subjective report of less than complete recovery from the injury

easy access to computer with internet access

compatible web browser (such as the latest version of Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox or other as determined by developers)

has a support giver (18 or over) who is willing to participate in this study also

Exclusion Criteria:

● history of substance abuse as self reported by patient or reported by support giver

Contacts and Locations

Information from the National Library of Medicine

To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01398566

Locations

United States, Ohio

The Ohio State University Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Department